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Street Cleaners’ Woes
November 1st, 2010 - 1 year, 200 days ago 
We have problems of paan stains, overflowing sewage waste or garbage on pavements. In fact, the problems lie with the way we look at the job of cleaning. How many of us ever thought about the people who actually work to keep our cities/towns litter free? There are countless conservancy workers in every city/town who
Issue Month : November Issue Year : 2010 Issue Volume : VOL.: 6 Issue Number : ISSUE.: 11
Rapid Composting of Municipal Solid Wastes
Recent developments in composting technology have novel processes and ideas which can make composting user-friendly and entrepreneur oriented.
Issue Month : November Issue Year : 2010 Issue Volume : VOL.: 6 Issue Number : ISSUE.: 11
Workshop on Zero Waste Management
In an effort to show how more than 90% of the household wastes could be recycled, Mumbai-based groups RUR (‘Are you recycling’) and Urban Leaves (group which supports organic food) recently conducted a workshop on zero waste management. The highlights of the workshop were on understanding the meaning of ‘Green’, practicing zero waste management at
Issue Month : October Issue Year : 2010 Issue Volume : VOL.: 6 Issue Number : ISSUE.: 10
Project Dharavi: Waste Matters for Green Workers
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Dharavi, Asia’s largest slum is a haven of dry waste – huge mounds of plastic bags, papers, scraps… It is also a home to several migrant workers, ragpickers and destitute and is probably the world’s largest recycling quarters where almost 80% of the dry waste generated in the city is segregated for recycling into reusable
Climbing Walls
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A UK based 13-year-old school boy Hibiki Kono does a spiderman with a vacuum cleaner. He climbs the walls with the help of a backpack vacuum cleaner which uses the power of two 1,400watt Tesco Value vacuum cleaners and wooden suction pads attached to the nozzle. The wooden pads have a rubber seal to give
Towards a Clean Delhi
Solid waste management is one of the major issues confronting most municipal corporations in every state. Given the limitations of starting new landfill sites and the existing sites already operating more than the capacity corporations are in dire straits. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi is no exception. In an exclusive interview, Municipal Commissioner of Delhi
Issue Month : August Issue Year : 2010 Issue Volume : VOL.: 6 Issue Number : ISSUE: 8
Preparing Wastewater Effluent for Membranes
Ethanol is a love hate issue in America today. Grain farmers love it while poultry and livestock ranchers hate it; American isolationists love it while globalists hate it, and it goes on and on. Regardless of one stand on the subject, ethanol plants are in operation all over the United States. Today, 143 biorefineries are
Issue Month : July Issue Year : 2010 Issue Volume : VOL.: 6 Issue Number : ISSUE: 7
Big CIGAR keeps environment clean
Seen from a distance, the giant septic tank installation made from High Density Polyethylene (HDPE), resembles a giant balloon that has been planted in the earth. The blue installation is located among cattle feedlots owned by PT Santosa Agrindo (Santori) in Bumiaji Kampung, Anaktuha subdistrict, Central Lampung Regency. The septic tank, which measures 90 by
Issue Month : June Issue Year : 2010 Issue Volume : VOL.: 6 Issue Number : ISSUE.: 6
Waste reduction in hotels
A recent hotel waste audit showed that each guestroom contributes from one kilogramme to 57kg of waste per day. It comprises of two components, biodegradable (wet) waste and non biodegradable (dry) waste. The majority of waste is not produced in rooms but in the food and beverage department. A large property can generate as much
Issue Month : May Issue Year : 2010 Issue Volume : VOL.: 6 Issue Number : ISSUE.: 5
Harvesting an eco-friendly story
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Kulgaon-Badlapur Municipal Council has been implementing rainwater harvesting in its societies successfully since the last four years
Issue Month : May Issue Year : 2010 Issue Volume : VOL.: 6 Issue Number : ISSUE.: 5
